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The fudge boiled over, and more than half of it was lost in the ashes. "It's a good thing that it did," Allison declared, tossing the empty salmon box and a bag of peanut shells into the fire. "Ugh! The mixture we've already eaten is enough to kill us! I think we ought to start back home now. I'm sure that I heard the one o'clock train whistle." But Kitty protested.
The routine of college classes became settled at last, and gradually the young people found bits of leisure for the family life which they craved and loved. Allison came in one day, and announced that he had bought a canoe. "It's a peach, Cloudy, and I got it cheap from a fellow that has to leave college.
"It's rather mortifying not to know what's going on in your own family when the neighbors ask. Here was I without any knowledge of the arrival of my own niece and nephew! Had to be told by Mrs. Perkins." Then Allison and Leslie did laugh, but they veiled their mirth by talking about the two white chickens out in the yard which were contending for a worm. Suddenly Leslie exclaimed: "O Allison!
Sherman, as bricks from the chimney tops began rolling down the roof and falling to the ground below with heavy thuds. "We expected to start home about this time," Miss Allison was saying. "We ordered the wagonettes to come back for us at ten o'clock, but it looks now as if we are storm-bound for the night. Did you ever hear such a downpour?"
Allison sighed and turned his face away. "She wouldn't take it," he said, sadly. Isabel slipped it back on her finger, evidently relieved. "I'm glad you're better," she went on, clearing her throat. "Thank you. So am I." "I saw your father, out in the car. The Doctor was with him." "Yes. They're coming back for me in a little while." "It's a lovely car.
Suddenly Allison turned around, and looked at Julia Cloud, saw the white, strained look around her lips, the yearning light in her eyes, and had some swift man's intuition about the true woman's soul of her. For men, especially young men, do have these intuitions sometimes as well as women.
He turned and blinked at them in wonder. What had so influenced them that they all fell in line and performed their part as if it were being rehearsed for his benefit? What was the motive power? The query interested him to the point of good behavior all through the remainder of the meeting, and while he was standing waiting for Allison and Leslie at the close.
Allison's arms dropped away from her, but his eyes held her in a long look of joy. "All right, darling, go to it" he said with a joyous sound in his voice "I can stand anything now, I know. It seems too good to be true and it's enough for me. But hurry! A fellow can't wait forever." "No, Allison, you must sit back and be serious. It isn't really happy, you know what I have to tell you !"
Allison turned, and, ghastly of face, met the eyes of his daughter. "Barbara," he appealed to her, frantically. "Baby " But she shrank, a huddled heap of misery, away from him. "You too?" she whispered. "You!" And then, dully: "And you're my father!" The shoulders beneath the garish plaid rose and fell, pitifully. This, then, was the moment which he feared.
With beating hearts the boys watched the conflict, and could mark that the British fire grew feebler, and in some places ceased altogether, while the wild yells of the Russians rose louder as they pressed forward exultingly, believing that victory lay within their grasp. "Things look very bad, Jack," Allison said.
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